A busy evening in your home
Count what runs at the same time on your worst-case night, not on an average one.
Everyday
- Web browsing3 / 0.5 Mbps
- Email and messaging1 / 0.5 Mbps
- Social media scrolling5 / 1 Mbps
- Music streaming0.5 / 0.1 Mbps
Streaming
- SD video stream3 / 0.1 Mbps
- HD video stream5 / 0.1 Mbps
- 4K video stream25 / 0.1 Mbps
Work
- HD video call4 / 4 Mbps
- Work VPN / remote desktop10 / 5 Mbps
- Cloud file sync10 / 10 Mbps
Play
- Online gaming10 / 3 Mbps
- Cloud gaming25 / 2 Mbps
- Large game downloads50 / 1 Mbps
Home
- Smart home devices2 / 1 Mbps
- 4K security camera4 / 8 Mbps
- Overnight cloud backup5 / 20 Mbps
Download you need
78Mbps
56 Mbps of activity plus 40% headroom.
Upload you need
16Mbps
Calls, backups and game streaming all live here.
You have enough. 100 Mbps covers the 78 Mbps above with 22 Mbps to spare. Spending more would not make this evening any smoother.
Plan to buy
100 Mbps
Next tier up
In megabytes
9.8 MB/s
Combined throughput
Activities counted
9
Running at once
Latency sensitive
2
Ping matters more than speed
| Activity | Count | Download | Upload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web browsing | 2 | 6.0 Mbps | 1.0 Mbps |
| HD video stream | 1 | 5.0 Mbps | 0.1 Mbps |
| 4K video stream | 1 | 25.0 Mbps | 0.1 Mbps |
| HD video call | 1 | 4.0 Mbps | 4.0 Mbps |
| Online gaming | 1 | 10.0 Mbps | 3.0 Mbps |
| Smart home devices | 3 | 6.0 Mbps | 3.0 Mbps |
Past a point, more speed changes nothing
Once a connection comfortably covers everything running at once, extra megabits sit unused. What you feel after that is latency, Wi-Fi coverage and the router - which is why a 1 Gbps plan can still feel worse than a well-set-up 200 Mbps one.